By Madjiasra Nako, N’DJAMENA Chad
Boko Haram militants killed 14 Chadian civilians and
wounded five others in an overnight attack on a fisherman's camp in the north-eastern
part of Lake Chad, a local official said on Wednesday.
Boko Haram
has been fighting for a decade to carve out an Islamist caliphate in northeast
Nigeria and has carried out regular raids over loosely guarded borders into neighbouring
Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
The latest
attack struck a camp of fishermen near the village of Kaiga on Lake Chad, which
has been plagued by the militants since 2009.
“The assailants
arrived in the night and attacked the fishermen,” official Dimoya Souapebe told
reporters. Thirteen people are missing in addition to the 14 killed, he said.
In March,
Boko Haram militants killed at least 23 Chadian soldiers in an overnight raid,
one of the deadliest such attacks inside Chad by the insurgents.
Chadian
soldiers are part of a U.S.-trained West African task force deployed to counter
Boko Haram. The violence over the past decade has killed more than 30,000
people and forced about 2 million to leave their homes. - Africa
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